Spoil Santa this Christmas with a plate of our Linzer Prune Cookies to accompany his glass of sherry. You’ll be sure to guarantee yourself a place on his “nice” list! The delicious Cookies make a really lovely gift for foodie friends, too - if you can bear to give them away that is!
Ingredients
80 g Sunsweet prunes3 tablespoons water
280-300 g flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 tablespoons ginger spice
50 g brown sugar
100 g butter, softened
1 medium egg
For the filling:
80 g quince or red currant jam
2 tablespoons water
100 g Sunsweet prunes
To Serve:
Some icing sugar for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 °C and puree prunes for the cookie dough with water.
- Mix baking powder with flour, ginger spice and sugar. Whisk in butter cubes, egg and plum puree with a hand mixer. Use kneader of hand mixer to knit the dough until smooth. Wrap the dough in foil and place for 30 min in the refrigerator.
- Boil water for 2 minutes with the jam. Add the prunes and puree and mix well.
- Roll out the dough on floured surface, until 2-3 mm thick. Cut out 36 round cookies (approx. 6cm diameter). Bake half of the cookies for 12 minutes. Cut out little stars (2,5-3cm diameter) from center of the uncooked cookies and bake. Also bake the little stars but take them out a few minutes earlier than the other cookies.
- Spread prune filling sparingly but evenly on the round cookies, then place a dab of the filling in the centre and place the cookies with star cut out on it. Press gently. Sift icing sugar over cookies.
